Research Projects and Programmes
Below are listed in in alphabetical order both current and closed research projects and programmes at the Department.
Current Projects
- Acting Out Disease: Hur patientorganisationer formade den moderna medicinen (ActDisease)
- Collecting Humanity: Prehistory, Race, and Instructions for "Scientific" Travel, 1750–1850
- The Emotional Citizen: Quality of Life Debates and the Transformation of Democracy in 1970s Sweden
- Funding Effects: The Emergence of Public Research Councils and the Formation of the Human Sciences in Sweden, 1947–1977
- Mapping the geographies of early modern mining knowledge. A digital history of the study tours of the Swedish Bureau of Mines, 1691–1826
- Early Citizen Science: How the Public Used Linnaean Instructions to Collect the World, c. 1750–1850
- A History of Ecological Economics as Political Thought, 1980–2000
- The Intimate Relationship: A Cultural-Economic History of Everyday Finances
- Communicating Medicine: Digitalisation of Swedish Medical Periodicals, 1781–2011 (SweMPer)
- Between Openness and Secrecy: Controlling Medical Communication in Twentieth Century Sweden
- Neoliberalism as Lived Experience and Everyday Practice: The Making of Everyman's Capitalism
- Nordic Naturalists as Fashionistas: Interpreting Taste and Substituting Global Goods with Local in the Long 18th Century
- Neoliberalism in the Nordics: Developing an Absent Theme
- Provenance in 19th-Century Europe: Research Practice and Concept
- The Scientific Conference: A Social, Cultural, and Political History
- Self-Erasure and Practices of Motivated Forgetting in Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Unmapping Africa: Enlightenment Geography and the Making of Blank Spaces
Closed Projects
- Alva Myrdal and Cold War International Social Science: Visions, Practices and Geopolitics at UNESCO, 1950-1955
- Anspråk och motstånd: Studier i liköppningarnas etableringshistoria (in Swedish)
- Reconstructing Early Modern Pharmacy: Global Trade Networks, Substances, and Practices
- The Latin Texts of Benjamin Höijer
- Brown Networks among Swedish Intellectuals during the Interwar Period and World War II
- The Business of Identity: Money and Identification in Twentieth Century Sweden
- Mapping the Emotions of Higher Education
- An Example for All Seasons? The Theory of History in Contemporary Economic Thought
- Experimental History of Science
- Exploring Global Paths of Knowledge: A Brazilian-Swedish Research Collaboration in the History of Science and Medicine
- The Family Tree: A History of Scientific Imagination
- From Facts to Identity: The Swedish AIDS Poster, 1987–1994 (in Swedish)
- History and Identity
- Homo Elector: The Voter in Social Science, Politics and Propaganda in the Interwar Years
- The Rise of Infodemiology
- International Ideas at UNESCO: Digital Approaches to Global Conceptual History
- Knowledge Traditions and Scientific Change
- The Culture of International Society: Cultural Treaties and the Emergence of a Global Culture Concept, 1919–1972
- Making a European People Visible: The Birth of Illustrated News and Transnational Political Subjectivity in the 1840s
- Medicine at the Borders of Life: Foetal Research and the Emergence of Ethical Controversy in Sweden
- Merchants of Enlightenment
- The Mobilization of Patients in 20th Century Medicine
- Människans metamorfos: Kulturhistoriska perspektiv på ålder och den mognande kroppens politik (in Swedish)
- Political Representation of Future Generations: Sustainability in Political Language, France 1780–1850
- Promoting the Contraceptive Revolution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the Age of Global Overpopulation
- Publications, Priority, and Defining the Scientific Community: Berzelius and the Royal Academy of Sciences, 1800–1848
- Reklam för demokrati? Normbildning kring politisk reklam under mellankrigstiden (in Swedish)
- Science and the Changing Senses of Reality, c. 1900
- Science and the Knowing Body
- A Slow Form of Governance? Collegial Organization, Temporal Synchronization, and University Reforms in Sweden, c. 1850–1920
- History of Uppsala University
- Utomordentliga kroppar i naturens utkant: Monster i svensk naturalhistoria, 1630–1830 (in Swedish)
- Science and Modernization in Sweden: An Institutional Approach to Historicizing the Knowledge Society